Ignore The Gassing

Mark Almond and Shaun Walker on how Russia is simply doing what an emerging power does. We were just the same in our day.

And we need not be concerned in the least. Clean coal (and our main island pretty much stands on coal) and nuclear power offer high-wage, high-skilled, high-status jobs for the working class, and independence from Arab oil and Russian gas.

Among many other good things, this would contribute significantly to reversing Thatcher's destruction of the economic base of paternal authority, initially in working-class families and communities, but then very rapidly throughout society as a whole.

How could any conservative object to that? Unless, of course, the nuclear power (or the clean coal) were owned by a foreign state...

So we need public ownership, which is British ownership, since nothing else can deliver what is necessary on the scale that is necessary.